travel & adventure

Travel writing is not all fun and games. Sure it's all fine and good when you're skiing in the French Alps for a week at Club Med, but when you're cramped in a rickety minivan with a Ugandan woman's chicken at your feet ? Adventure, yes. Fun? Hmm.

But I've always been game for anything, from my first adventure column in The Jerusalem Post, (where I went skydiving, paragliding, hangliding and any other kind of gliding you can think of), to more serious stories in place like Ukraine (when religion was first allowed again) or Costa Rica (where I thought I was going on vacation but ended up discovering a cult).

Here are a few:

Southwest Magazine: A Mutual Feast

The sharing economy hits the dinner table as new companies llke EatWith connect strangers to home cooks.